Smartphones share our data every four and a half minutes, says study

[+] auslegung|5 years ago|reply

As long as Apple has the encryption keys they should not but trusted, but Apple and Google are a smidge different

> Google handsets collected “a notably larger volume of handset data than Apple” with 1MB of data being sent from idle Google Pixel handsets every 12 hours, compared with 52KB sent from the iPhone.

That’s 20x less than Google collects. If I knew it was all encrypted on device with keys only I own, I’d be much happier, but 20x less is better than nothing.

[+] woleium|5 years ago|reply

KB of data is a poor indicator of the extent of privacy violation. Maybe Apple are just shipping deltas instead of the full load. Without inspection we have no idea.

[+] temac|5 years ago|reply

Actually, 'nothing' would be better than 20x less :)

[+] kevinfanch|5 years ago|reply

This research is great to see how we are being constantly followed and profiled by Google and Apple. We need more privacy respecting options for mobile phones, such as /e/ OS mentioned in the research. It should be easy to use for non-technical users, and guard privacy by default. I believe e foundation does a good job in providing a user friendly and private android.

[+] megaraid999|5 years ago|reply

I've been using /e/OS for one year now, and it's awesome how actually easy it is to have a Google-free and normal "digital life"

[+] prince707|5 years ago|reply

Some explaination here? https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/14/google_android_data_a...

[+] smartbit|5 years ago|reply

The original study https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf. They had to jailbreak the iPhone for patching several libraries to circumvent certificate pinning.

Shouldn’t the link be changed from Irishtimes to the pdf?

[+] midrus|5 years ago|reply

Meanwhile my Xiaomi phone is constantly sending data when on wifi (by looking at the arrows in the wifi icon).

I'm never buying this crap again.

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